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Christmas special shelved over script delay
05/11/2011 … The Royle Family Christmas special has been shelved, because Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash couldn’t finish writing it in time.
2011 Archives
Sat 05 November 2011
© BBC Fri 04 November 2011
Comedians, wear your poppy with pride
04/11/2011 … I must look a right state before I go on stage.
'We have to parade our growths'
04/11/2011 … ‘My act has basically become “being slightly pathetic” over recent years.
I, Partridge, by Alan Partridge
04/11/2011 … Few can have seen Alan Gordon Partridge and thought, ‘Who is this man, and how on earth did he get on my TV?’ Well now, thanks to his autobiography I, Partridge,…
Win Rufus Hound's first DVD
04/11/2011 … Rufus Hound’s first stand-up DVD is released on Monday – and we have six copies to give away.
Cutting out the middle men
Louis CK releases stand-up special direct
04/11/2011 … American comedian Louis CK is bypassing traditional media to release his next stand-up special directly over the internet.
Thu 03 November 2011
A reel coup
Movie show snaps up top comics
03/11/2011 … Comics including Stewart Lee, Rob Brydon, Rufus Hound and Simon Pegg are taking part in a new movie show for the DMax digital channel.
Putting the NE into 'NEw comedy'
BBC hunts for North East talent
03/11/2011 … The BBC has launched a second hunt for new comedy talent in the North East of England.